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"True Detective": the Devouring Time and the Eternal Return

Published on: January 9 2019 Last updated on: January 9 2019 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Cinema and TV, Esotericism, Philosophy, History of Religions

In view of the release, scheduled for January 14, of the third season of "True Detective", we propose to our readers the cycle of articles we curated for YAWP on the esoteric elements of the successful television series.

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“Picnic at Hanging Rock”: an Apollonian allegory

Published on: March 18 2018 Last updated on: November 28, 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Cinema and TV, Esotericism, Mito

Our analysis of Peter Weir's cult film, making use of the interpretative tools of the anthropology of the Sacred, in particular: the Sacred as "Totally Other" according to Rudolf Otto; the "breaking of level", the "suspension of time" and the theme of access to the Other World by Mircea Eliade; Apollonian symbolism according to the studies of Giorgio Colli.

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Mircea Eliade: "The myths of the modern world"

Published on: July 19 2017 Last updated on: July 19 2017 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Anthropology, Extracts, Mito

In the first chapter of his study Myths, dreams and mysteries (published in 1957), the Romanian historian of religions Mircea Eliade deals with the question of the survival of the Myth, more or less "disguised", in the modern world. The question from which his analysis starts is the following: "What have myths become in modern societies?" Or rather: what occupied the essential place that myth had in traditional societies?». With these premises, Eliade therefore investigates the function of mythical thought in the twentieth century, analyzing in the first place the different types of eschatology underlying the political myths of our time: the "communist myth" and the "national socialist" one.

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